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RISS & COMPANY v. ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS

Civ. A. No. 4056-54.

178 F.Supp. 438 (1959)

RISS & COMPANY, Inc., Plaintiff, v. ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

November 3, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Alvis Layne, Jr., Lester M. Bridgeman, Robert L. Wright, Morton A. Brody, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff, Riss & Co., Inc.

William E. Miller, Stephen Ailes, Richard A. Whiting, Washington, D. C., for defendant Association of American Railroads.

Hugh B. Cox, James H. McGlothlin, Washington, D. C., for defendants Baltimore & O. R. Co. and others.

Francis M. Shea, Lawrence J. Latto, Washington, D. C., for defendants Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. and others.

Stuart S. Ball, Richard J. Flynn, Chicago, Ill., for defendants Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co. and others.

Martin A. Meyer, Jr., Washington, D. C., for defendant Virginian Ry. Co.

Edward K. Wheeler, Robert G. Seaks, Washington, D. C., for defendants Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. and New York Cent. R. Co.

H. Graham Morison, Newell A. Clapp, Washington, D. C., for defendant Louisville & N. R. Co.

John D. Lane, Fred S. Gilbert, Jr., Washington, D. C., for defendants Boston & Maine R. R. and New York, N. H. & H. R. Co.

J. Raymond Hoover, Washington, D. C., for defendants Grand Trunk Western R. Co. and Central Ry., Inc.

SIRICA, District Judge.

Plaintiff has moved for judgment on the pleadings, pursuant to Rule 12(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A., to dismiss certain "common law" counterclaims of defendants on the ground that these counterclaims do not state a claim upon which relief can be granted, and that this Court lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter.

Sixteen of the remaining individual railroad defendants in this civil antitrust suit have filed...

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